Harold Hambrose Is Featured Speaker on Technology’s Power to Impact Urban Life
Thursday, September 09, 2010
November 2, 2007
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Harold Hambrose, CEO and Founder of
Electronic Ink, today was the featured speaker at the Digital
Transformation of Urban Experiences, a design workshop presented by
the Irwin L. Gross Institute for Business and Information
Technology of the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
The event convened leading academics and practitioners to
analyze, design and describe ways to transform urban communities.
Participants included designers, architects, technologists,
artists, policymakers, engineers and entrepreneurs, who were joined
by academics in management, economics, architecture, communication,
history and sociology in an effort to identify visionary design
scenarios of future digital urban communities.
Temple University partnered with the City of Philadelphia to
envision how a broadband wireless network can transform the lives
and experiences of residents and visitors, and workshop
participants used the Philadelphia Wireless project as inspiration
during sessions.
Hambrose, a longtime resident of Philadelphia, is uniquely
qualified on the topic of urban transformation, having chosen the
city above all others as the location for his software design
company when he founded it 17 years ago, and having attracted and
retained world class talent since that time.
For nearly two decades, Hambrose and the staff of more than 90
professionals at Electronic Ink have specialized in helping
organizations leverage design, human factors and technology to
solve problems and create usable systems.
Hambrose addressed participants at an evening reception
following the first full day of workshop activities. He urged them
to remember that urban environments were no different than any
other design challenge when it comes to discovering solutions. Like
all other assignments, Hambrose said, consideration should begin
with understanding of the user. He detailed how the user experience
should drive urban transformation as it relates to offering any
technology solution, including the Philadelphia Wireless
Project.
Temple University event organizers captured content of the
workshop, which is expected to be published in 2008.
Electronic Ink is a co-sponsor of the Irwin L. Gross IBIT
program at Temple, alongside companies such as Lockheed Martin and
GlaxoSmithKline. Electronic Ink's sponsorship will support
symposiums for leaders in the IT industry, scholarships for
students, and awards throughout the 2007-2008 academic year.
About Electronic Ink
From its headquarters in Philadelphia - and at offices in New
York, London and Raleigh - Electronic Ink improves the design and
usability of software applications, enterprise software and
browser-based applications. The company's staff of nearly 80
experts is dedicated to conducting groundbreaking work in data
visualization, user interface design, usability and human factors,
and business process analytics for an elite client roster. For more
than 18 years, the company's solutions have earned superior results
for the world's most notable brands in energy, financial services,
health care, media and government. Across all categories, clients
continue to select Electronic Ink for its proven ability to impact
efficiency and maximize productivity.